Title : 
Building performance analysis supported by GA
         
        
            Author : 
Ciftcioglu, Özer ; Sariyildiz, I. Sevil ; Bittermann, Michael S.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A neural tree structure is considered with nodes of neuronal type which is a Gaussian function and it plays the role of membership function. The total tree structure effectively works as a fuzzy logic system having system inputs and outputs. In this system the locations of the Gaussian membership functions of non-terminal nodes are unity so that the system has several desirable features and it represents a fuzzy model maintaining the transparency and effectiveness while dealing with complexity. The research is described in detail and its outstanding merits are pointed out in a framework having transparent fuzzy modelling properties and addressing complexity issues at the same time. A demonstrative real-life application of this model is presented and the favourable performance for similar applications is highlighted.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Gaussian processes; fuzzy logic; neural nets; Gaussian function; Gaussian membership functions; demonstrative real-life application; fuzzy logic system; neural tree structure; neuronal type; nonterminal nodes; transparent fuzzy modelling; Evolutionary computation; Performance analysis; Nueral tree; analytical hierarchy process; fuzzy logic; knowledge model;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Evolutionary Computation, 2007. CEC 2007. IEEE Congress on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Singapore
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-1339-3
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-1340-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CEC.2007.4424560